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Tool

Flood

Release date: 6th April 1993

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About This Track

'Flood' arrives as a reckoning with false certainty. Tool build the track around a simple, devastating premise: the ground you thought solid gives way. The lyrics trace a collapse of conviction, from the comfort of established order to the realisation that what felt like divine destiny was delusion. The water rises not as metaphor alone but as cleansing force, stripping away illusion and demanding flight to higher ground. The song's power lies in its refusal to offer purchase. Each verse deepens the vertigo. Tool layer the vocal with mounting urgency, the arrangement tightening around phrases like "take what is mine, hold what is mine" until the speaker surrenders the whole inventory to the flood. By the final verses, the water is not threat but inevitability, and the only honest response is to abandon what cannot be saved and climb toward what might sustain.

"Flood" is a track by Tool, from the album Undertow, released 6th April 1993. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Tool.

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Tool

Tool

Lyrics

Flood

[Intro]

Here comes the water

[Verse 1]

All I knew

All I believed

Crumbling images

No longer comfort me

Scramble to

Reach higher ground

Order and sanity

Something to comfort me

[Chorus]

Take what is mine, hold what is mine

Suffocate what is mine, bury what's mine

Soon the water will come and claim what is mine

I must leave it behind and climb to a new place now

[Post-Chorus]

This ground is not the rock I thought it to be

[Verse 2]

Thought I was high

Thought I was free

I thought I was there

Divine destiny

I was wrong

This changes everything

[Bridge]

Running away

Running away now

Running away

Running away now

Running away

Running away

[Chorus]

Take what is mine, hold what is mine

Suffocate what is mine, bury what's mine

Soon the water will come and claim what is mine

I must leave it behind and climb to a new place

The water is rising up on me

Said the water rising up on me

Thought the sun would come deliver me

But the truth has come to punish me instead

[Outro]

Grounds break down right under me

Cleanse and purge me in the water

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Track details

From Undertow

1993
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Album
Undertow
Undertow
Tool
6th April 1993
Release year
1993
  1. 1Intolerance
    4:54
  2. 2Prison Sex
    4:56
  3. 3Sober
    5:07
  4. 4Bottom
    7:14
  5. 5Crawl Away
    5:30
  6. 6Swamp Song
    5:32
  7. 7Undertow
    5:22
  8. 84°
    6:03
  9. 9Flood
    7:48
  10. 10Disgustipated
    15:47
  11. —Flood
  12. —4°
  13. —Crawl Away
  14. —Bottom
  15. —Swamp Song
  16. —Disgustipated
  17. —Undertow
  18. —Intolerance

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Writer
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